Coldplay announce biggest-ever present in Ahmedabad
Coldplay have introduced their largest ever present within the Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad subsequent yr.
The band will probably be performing on the 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium on January 25, which is the biggest stadium on the earth, on their ‘Music Of The Spheres’ World Tour. They are going to be joined by a ‘thriller visitor’ who’s but to be introduced.
Tickets will go on sale on Saturday, November 16 at 12pm IST.
The Ahmedabad present is one in every of a number of Asia exhibits Coldplay will probably be enjoying subsequent yr on the largest rock tour of all time, having beforehand introduced gigs in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Seoul and Mumbai. It can mark Coldplay’s first full-length headline touring efficiency in India after their 2016 look at International Citizen Pageant. The brand new dates may also see the band return to Hong Kong for the primary time since 2009. Coldplay’s Abu Dhabi dates are additionally the primary since 2016, and Seoul since 2017.
✨ 2025 AHMEDABAD DATE ANNOUNCED
The band will play their largest ever present, on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on 25 January, 2025.
Tickets on sale Saturday, 16 November at 12pm IST.
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Later in 2025, Coldplay will head over to North America for 10 new gigs within the US and Canada between Might and July. They are going to then return to the UK for the following leg of the tour in August and September.
For Coldplay’s UK stadium leg, the band will probably be donating 10 per cent of proceeds to the Music Venue Belief, in a bid to assist defend the UK’s stay music sector and safe the way forward for grassroots venues.
“Coldplay are the right instance of a UK band who got here via the grassroots circuit on their solution to worldwide stadium-filling success,” mentioned MVT CEO Mark Davyd of the choice. “It’s incredible to see them celebrating their very own pathway to Wembley by giving again to the grassroots music venues that supported them and recognising the artists and promoters that are struggling greater than ever to construct their very own careers.”
Davyd added that the cash will “go instantly into work that ensures communities proper throughout the nation will proceed to have entry to nice stay music on their doorstep”.
Frontman Chris Martin shared that he put his plan into motion when he grew to become conscious of the present state of affairs with grassroots venues struggling to remain open on the tail-end of final yr. “I’d simply assumed The Leicester Charlotte can be tremendous,” he instructed us. “I didn’t assume there was a problem as a result of I didn’t give it some thought. It was round COVID that you simply began to listen to about this or that venue having to shut. I assumed, ‘Oh, we performed all these venues, Oasis performed all these venues – these are necessary’.”
When requested if it bothered him if venues proceed to vanish, the world could by no means see one other Coldplay, Martin mentioned: “I feel lots of people can be blissful about that! The reality is that enjoying stay is a vital connection. It doesn’t hassle me that there may not be one other Coldplay, but it surely does hassle me that there may not be acts which might be free to start out on the underside rung and work all the way in which up – in order that by the point they get to stadiums, they’re actually good.
“You possibly can’t simply bounce into that. With the entire artists which might be enjoying stadiums subsequent yr, it’s no coincidence that each one of them began in a van, driving round and enjoying pubs: Oasis, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, the reality is all there. Taylor Swift has most likely performed greater than anybody in tiny Nashville venues and county festivals.”
Elsewhere, Martin spoke to NME not too long ago in an unique interview in regards to the band’s present place on the earth. He mentioned: “Proper now, and since about 2008, if one thing lands in me as a track or as a good suggestion and it feels genuine, we’ll do it. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. It’s very liberating, and it was most likely began by Brian Eno’s philosophy when he got here in to rebuild us. Since then, if I discover one thing true and thrilling, then we’ll go for it. It has led us to some actually bizarre and superb locations.”
As for whether or not the group are nonetheless planning on ending their recorded catalogue after 12 albums, he instructed NME: “The 12 album factor could be very actual, and it’s a pleasant feeling. It doesn’t imply we received’t tour or end some compilation issues or outtakes or no matter. It simply signifies that the principle story is instructed. That’s simply what feels actually proper. Simply realizing that’s occurring supercharges all of the work we’re doing now.”
In different information, Travis Scott has shared his response to Coldplay enjoying a canopy of his hit track ‘Goosebumps’. He wrote on X together with a goat emoji – used to indicate the Best Of All Time: “This received it.”